I like it because it saves typing. There was a good example of a 20-line Java program that was reduced to 3 lines in Groovy. I’ve lost the link though. — Script Musings
That’s the problem. Tiny programs are so easy to misplace. The entire corpus of APL programs was practically whipped out back in the 1970s by a high wind. Don’t want to loose things? XML!
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“The entire corpus of APL programs was practically
whipped out back in the 1970s by a high wind.”
Perhaps we should be thankful! Wouldn’t if be nice
if old and obsolete code that was never intended for
anything but one-off applications would magically
disappear after a period of time!
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